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You are the owner of Artic Wolf Snowmobiles. You manufacture and sell a large variety of snowmobiles and
related parts and equipment on a national basis. You are struggling with finances, even though you took a
Business Finance course in college. Respond to the following financial dilemmas. (Do not carry numbers over
from one problem to another.)
Cash
Sales
Cash Management
1. You are trying to identify how your company can better manage cash. You know that companies try to speed
up collections as one way of managing cash. To do this, your bank has offered to set up a lockbox system.
You typically receive 1.5 million a day and could earn 9% on any funds freed up through faster collections.
If the lockbox system can save 2 days in the collection process, and the firms bankers will charge $200,000
per year to operate the lockbox system, is it worth it to establish the system?
Note: Remember the basic concept slow money going out and speed money coming in so your company has
access to cash.
Inventory
Artic Wolf is experiencing some inventory control problems. The Inventory Manager, Wanda, currently orders
50,000 windshields four times a year to handle the annual demand of 200,000 units. Each order costs $75. The
carrying cost is 10% and the purchase price is $150. There is a safety stock of 200 units.
a. Calculate the EOQ. (Round to the nearest whole number for the next problems.)
b. What is the average inventory?
c. Calculate the total annual inventory cost using EOQ (includes ordering costs and carrying cost.)
a. EOQ = 2SO = 2x200,000x75 = 1,414.20 = 1,414units ($15 carrying cost is 10% of $150 cost)
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c. . Ordering Costs = 200,000 sales / 1414 EOQ ordering amount = 141 orders per year
= 141 orders x $75 per order = $10,575
Note: If you calculate total inventory costs when the company ordered 50,000 windshields four times a year, you would
find that the company was previously spending $378,300 on inventory. This is the beauty of EOQ!
Accounts Receivable
You have the following schedule for aging of accounts receivable:
Age of Receivables, April 30, 2011
b. Ave collection period = A/R / ave daily credit sales = 41,467,000 / (189,000,000 /120) = 41,467,000 /
1,575,000 = 26.3 days
c. Yes
d. Yes, most accounts are collected within 30 days.
= 2% x 360
100% - 2% 30-10
=2% x 18 = 36%
Credit Decision
Artic Wolf is considering extending trade credit to some customers previously considered poor
risks. Sales would increase by $100,000 if credit is extended to these new customers. Of the new
accounts receivable generated, 10 percent will prove to be uncollectible. Additional collection
costs will be 3 percent of sales, and production and selling costs will be 79 percent of sales. The
firm is in the 40 percent tax bracket.